It’s leaping catches like this one by wide receiver Taulib Ikharo that has helped guide Louisiana Tech University into the Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, Calif. Ikharo and his teammates returned to the practice field this week to ready for the progrma’s first postseaon appearance since 2008.

Since the ball is shaped funny and some of the players are teenagers and few things except gravity are exact science anyway, odd things will happen now and then in college football.
Take the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of 2011. They are playing like the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs of 2012, the team that’s not even a team yet. But when they get to be a team, with key players returning with a year’s more experience and with a schedule that doesn’t feature games against All Three Big Mississippi Schools away, plus three of the final four games on the road, they’re supposed to be sort of good.

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